07 Dec 07
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Does anyone have either of his two book series, more specifically gambiteer I? There is a surprising lack of reviews on Amazon.com. I am normally a positional player, but sometimes you just need to change your style and try something new, so I thought this might be the book for me- is it any good?
Edit: Most of his other books have gotten good review on Amazon.com
07 Dec 07
Originally posted by chesskid001I also found (IM?) Nigel Davies interesting. In the past, I attempted to visit his website and contact him. The website was terribly difficult to find and, once found, was essentially an unusable shell which could not be reached beyond the frontispage. I could find no current email address for feedback to him. Nigel Davies, I concluded, seems to exist only as a set of phantom-like references: look too close and he disappears altogether. So, it does not surprise me that his books are unreviewed. I had in fact wondered if he were dead. But you say he is writing new books. Somebody call Rod Serling...
Does anyone have either of his two book series, more specifically gambiteer I? There is a surprising lack of reviews on Amazon.com. I am normally a positional player, but sometimes you just need to change your style and try something new, so I thought this might be the book for me- is it any good?
Edit: Most of his other books have gotten good review on Amazon.com
07 Dec 07
Originally posted by Mark AdkinsL.O.L.
I also found (IM?) Nigel Davies interesting. In the past, I attempted to visit his website and contact him. The website was terribly difficult to find and, once found, was essentially an unusable shell which could not be reached beyond the frontispage. I could find no current email address for feedback to him. Nigel Davies, I concluded, seems to exis ...[text shortened]... ct wondered if he were dead. But you say he is writing new books. Somebody call Rod Serling...
07 Dec 07
Originally posted by TyrannosauruschexHe is an English GM, based in NW England, though I think he has lived in North Wales too. I also believe that he has had connections in the past with Israeli chess. I have played him OTB in local club chess. He has written quite a few books. In recent years his OTB playing style has become fairly solid, so I doubt whether he'll play any of the openings he recommends in the Gambiteer series, though I'd love to be proved wrong!
http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=404420
Here is some information about him, he is an English grand master but I dont remember ever seeing him playing when I have been (perhaps I just missed him) in big events.
12 Dec 07
Special news for all - I have found a picture of Nigel Davies
http://www.colossus.demon.co.uk/bcc/eventsresults/congresses/2006rapidplay/100_1522.jpg
Playing this weekend at the Bury rapidplay, having his first move made for him - nice to see it was e4, hopefully it got him into the gambit spirit.